Robert Totten Isham (1921-2015)

He was born and grew up in Lake Forest, spending his summers at the family properrty in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He attended the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Yale University (1943). He served in WWII as a field artillery forward observer in France and Germany, earning five battle stars and a bronze star. Returning to Chicago, he owned and ran Streeter-Amet Co., a manufacturer of heavy duty weighing and counting mechanisms, and the Wyco Tool Company that made concrete construction tools. He was active in the Republican Party and served on a number of charitable organizations, including as a founding director of the Northern Illinois Council on Substance Abuse, and as a member of the first committee of the Lurie Children's Memorial Pro-Am Golf Event. He was an avid golfer, and while working in Chicago resided in Lake Forest and Lake Bluff before he and his wife retired full-time to Santa Barbara in 1991. In 1949, he married Bleecker Burnett and had two children.